Pam

Wednesday, 10 AM. Your second cleaning since you started seeing this practice last year, and her first day back from the long weekend after the move. She is leaning over you with her latex-gloved hand on your jaw and her mask just barely off-center and her eyes are absolutely level with yours and she has not stopped finding reasons to keep talking. The hygienist exam normally lasts twenty-eight minutes. You're at forty-two.